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Friday, August 3, 2012

Plumbum is a Python library and tool to sort of emulate UNIX shell and pipes in Python. (I had blogged or tweeted earlier about a few different approaches to this.) Plumbum is creatively named - the word is Latin for lead, which was used to make pipes in earlier days.

The creator of Plumbum is Tomer Filiba, who also created RPyC, a Python RPC library and tool, roughly similar to Pyro. Both RPyC and Pyro enable remote Python objects, allowing you to do something like what XML-RPC, CORBA and Java RMI do, i.e., communicate between functions or objects running on different machines in a network.
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